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brym!
Joined: Jul 08, 2003
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From: NAIJA
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Talking about eating words I might soon patronise these chinese copy phones with dual sim capacity. I hate carrying 2 phones and I have been doing that since Celtel slashed data tariffs. I played with 3 different touch screen types this month and I am quite impressed. I'll give the dual sim capability and java support a thorough test before committing myself.
Bottom line is that I need a device with:
big touch screen
java support for oppera mini
good keypad, not necessarily qwerty
email client support
slim and light weight...
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adrusa
Joined: Sep 25, 2005
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Hello pples!
Recently bought a nokia e90 and pronto, the second day, i did a silly thing and I smashed its outer screen. All efforts to get a repair since than had come to nought; i-cell @ opebi, etel on phone and even the Nokia care line. Otigba also drew a blank, the screen is not available anywhere in Nigeria to my knowledge. If anybody have some clues, can you please share it? Thanks.
Meanwhile, I was at Otigba recently and I saw a large number of iPhones for sale between 40 and 70K and I was wondering how could the phones have been legitimately brought to Nigeria. I guess there was no way, considering it was exclusively made for AT&T.
I thought this was the legendary Nigerian 419 at work and if EFCC will leave the politicians alone for ICPC to handle for a change, may be they will be able to tackle this 419 scourge.
Every shop that has an iPhone should be made to explain how they got it or get sealed up and its proprietors dealt with. |
OluYom
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@brym!: I feel you, man.
@adrusaa: Pity about the E90. Your present options include to fly it out for the repairs or wait till it has adequate support on ground here.
About the iPhones, those guys must have purchased in bulk and then had them unlocked. Honestly, only a legal personal can analyse the legality of the action. The UK laws for example uphold people's rights to unlock any phone. Nigeria apparently has no laws governing such. It looks like the Police can cash in on this one though. I'd love to hear Apple and AT&T legal departments respond to it.
But in the meantime, this means we should be expecting to see Nigerians yapping away on iPhones; shouldn't we?
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adrusa
Joined: Sep 25, 2005
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About the iPhones, those guys must have purchased in bulk and then had t
But in the meantime, this means we should be expecting to see Nigerians yapping away on iPhones; shouldn't we?
No, not so fast. iPhone is at present locked to AT&T. The only "unlock" solution available allows you to use the thing as an expensive movie and music player. The phone part will be tricky as far as I can see. Right now in Nigeria, iPhone is worth nothing as a phone, because you cant pop a sim into it and yap away!!
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brix25
Joined: Aug 20, 2003
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On 2007-07-29 20:51:00, AYA wrote:
@brym!: I feel you, man.
@adrusaa: Pity about the E90. Your present options include to fly it out for the repairs or wait till it has adequate support on ground here.
About the iPhones, those guys must have purchased in bulk and then had them unlocked. Honestly, only a legal personal can analyse the legality of the action. The UK laws for example uphold people's rights to unlock any phone. Nigeria apparently has no laws governing such. It looks like the Police can cash in on this one though. I'd love to hear Apple and AT&T legal departments respond to it.
But in the meantime, this means we should be expecting to see Nigerians yapping away on iPhones; shouldn't we?
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The iPhone has of yet still not been cracked...Although last week I read that hackers have been able to make it work with AT&T's PAYG sim cards. It's a while till they truly unlock it and by the time that happens Apple would've launched the EMEA version (hopefully with 3G/HSDPA) which would make all these iPhones floating around pointless. |
OluYom
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If the iPhone has not been cracked yet, then those fellows offering them for sale here are simply playing on the intelligence of others. Shame.
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brix25
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On 2007-07-29 22:16:00, AYA wrote:
If the iPhone has not been cracked yet, then those fellows offering them for sale here are simply playing on the intelligence of others. Shame.
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Indeed, right now you'll be buying an expensive toy...you'll be able to use the wi-fi but none of the network services that come with the iPhone- so basically you'll have an inferior PDA that looks nice.
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ambyzown
Joined: May 11, 2005
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From: Lagos-Nigeria
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Trust Nigerians to get the iPhone even if the phone part will not work.
I didn't expect this so soon, but it sees the P1 has inherited most of the bugs of the P990i. SE and UIQ3 don't look like a good combination.
But I read somewhere that Motorola has successfully implemented UIQ3 on a phone that has proven to be bug free. so what is SE doing wrong?
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mamba
Joined: Nov 21, 2004
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On 2007-07-29 23:41:32, ambyzown wrote:
I didn't expect this so soon, but it sees the P1 has inherited most of the bugs of the P990i. SE and UIQ3 don't look like a good combination.
But I read somewhere that Motorola has successfully implemented UIQ3 on a phone that has proven to be bug free. so what is SE doing wrong?
Pls expatiate on this, don't allow your brother waste his hard earned money because I am seriously considering the P1i. |
OluYom
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On 2007-07-29 23:41:32, ambyzown wrote:
But I read somewhere that Motorola has successfully implemented UIQ3 on a phone that has proven to be bug free.
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And if SE is not careful, Moto will soon become the toast of UIQ3. For one, Moto put style into the Z8, acclaimed as a multimedia monster. The form factor of the Z8 also panders to the mass market - which is where real sales are. If Moto follows up strong, SE will be left wondering what it did wrong.
@mamba: I just checked the P1 Bug thread, and shockingly, it seems SE just added extra RAM to the P990i firmware and put it in a different body. People are reporting the same bugs as the P990 has minus the RAM issue. Does not sound good. But again, it may all depend on whether or not you can live with the bugs.
It is just a shame that people have to pay for 3 or 4 years of ongoing development the hard way and still get this. In contrast, I am yet to run into a bug with the E61i, as intense as I use it. That doesn't mean that one or two may not exist though, but I haven't hit one yet.
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2tek
Joined: Nov 08, 2004
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hey all, i went to starcoms office to get connected in IB, they dont have the data pack for the regular mobiles which i happen to buy from one of me friends, the data card they have in stock too is different, it is the rectangular one and my laptop uses the one that has a funny shape. whats with dem. so i gots to buy the table phone now
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OluYom
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On 2007-07-31 17:27:24, 2tek wrote:
...the data card they have in stock too is different, it is the rectangular one and my laptop uses the one that has a funny shape. whats with dem.
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Ahem...actually, I prefer to query the laptop manufacturers. Why change the format of their PCMCIA slots? Those odd-shaped cards are very scarce (as a matter of fact, I haven't met one person who has seen one, talkless of use it).
When buying a laptop, one of the things I check first is to make sure that the PCMCIA slot is the regular one. Saves me a lot of hassles later.
Your options:
1. Get a table top phone; or
2. Get a USB modem instead (usually a little more expensive than PCMCIA)
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234hay
Joined: Jan 23, 2007
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@ 2tek: Its most likely your laptop uses the newer ExpressCard slot.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExpressCard.The sad thing though is that its not backward compatible with existing PC Cards(as you've probably found out).
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bennie
Joined: Nov 16, 2004
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hello guys. you guys are doing too well to keep this forum alive. special thanks to AYA, Areafather, Mamba, Coola, Ambu n the rest of you regular posters. good to be back. |
OluYom
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On 2007-08-03 22:47:35, bennie wrote:
hello guys. you guys are doing too well to keep this forum alive. special thanks to AYA, Areafather, Mamba, Coola, Ambu n the rest of you regular posters. good to be back.
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@bennie: welcome back. Thanks for mentioning my name, but others have done much more than I have to keep this thread alive, especially abubakar, ambyzown, coolapostle, mamba, angelgirl and brym!
Its only recently I got a bit more regular.
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